Sentence examples for capacity to effect from inspiring English sources

For instance, a comprehensive review of extant literature suggests that most methods to help clinicians and practitioners to adopt evidence-based practices have the capacity to effect change – however, robust evidence of their effectiveness (and methods of action) is lacking [ 45].

No one since Wright has gone further than Mr. Gehry in asserting architecture's capacity to effect relationships among individuals in modern democracy.

But Habila's powerful, accomplished third novel displays a growing pessimism about journalism's capacity to effect change – as well as providing a nicely cynical dissection of the media's relentless appetite for sensation.

So it would seem that Mr Hatch is a good bet for the tea party, especially if one sees a politician's net influence as a product of his beliefs and his capacity to effect those beliefs.

In this sense, Mr. Paul's quandary reflects the position of the Tea Partiers, whose antipathy to government, rooted in populist impatience with the major parties, implies a repudiation of politics and its capacity to effect meaningful change.

'Powers' refer not simply to a capacity to effect outcomes or influence others' behavior.

The Agreement has the potential to spur action at the national level, improve tracking and reporting of climate commitments, encourage greater ambition and make certain that countries have the resources and capacity necessary to effect the change we need.

A normative power, on this understanding, is the capacity or ability to effect a change in the relevant normative landscape of rights, duties, privileges, and so on.

Thirdly, the capacity of states to effect regulation to address or ameliorate vulnerability is greatly restricted under structural adjustment, common in different forms across the continent.

We want Baltimore to represent the power of and capacity of cities and communities to effect social change– we want to be the model for that".

Four months after the international community convened to protect the Libyan population, Nato is still yet to utilise its military capacity to full effect.